Carriage-top.



No. 876,905 PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908 W. J. HOSKYNS.

CARRIAGE TOP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.10.1907.

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WITNESSES PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908. W. J. HOSKYNS.

OARRIAGE TOP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10,1907.

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50 end of the bow 6 which is 'of rip WILLIAM J. HOSKYNS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORTO THE AUTO ACCESSORIES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CARRIAGE-TOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. HosKYNs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, 5 have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Carriage-Tops, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains 10 to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

, This invention relates to carriage tops; it has for its obj ect'an improved frame for carriage tops in which one of the bows is adapted to be unshipped from its-place of use when used with an extended top and reshipped to a different position to enable the several bows to be folded into more compact and better arrangement.

In the drawings:.Fi ure 1, shows the frame in its extended position and the top is indicated as stretched over the frame Fig.

,2, shows the frame in its folded position.

Fig. 3, shows the same character of bow used with both a rear and front connection.

The frame is more especially intended to be used with automobile bodies in which it is desired to have a long fore and aft extent of the top.-

In Fig. l, is shown a common form of runabout body with a single removable bow arranged to be extended forward to cover the front part of the boot, and the steering gear. In Fig. 3, the same character of bow 1s shown arranged-with respect to a front seat and to a rear seat of a two seated automobile body, Fig. 4, shows the arrangement when the bows used with the front 40 seat of a double seated vehicle are unshipped from the front and assembled inconnection with the rear standard.

A vertical bow 1 is secured in the ordinary way to the seat 2, of the automobile body and to this is hinged the bow 3, which is in the usual form and hinged to an eye bar 4,

. at the base of the bow in the usual way. To the same eye-bar 4, to which bow 3 is connected, may be attached the engaging a size to fold into close engagement with the ibbW 1.

Near the end of the bow 6, is a bent crossbar or bow 7; this has a curvature in a plane at right-angles to the plane of the bow 6, and is a apted to fold into the curve of shown in Fig. 2.

the bow 1, when the parts are folded together as It is also adapted to rise above the plane of the bow 6, when the bow '6 lies in a horizontal position as shown in Fig.

1. Near the spring of the arch of the bow 1, and upon each standard is secured a bearing coupling 8 provided with a pin hole by means of which it may be brought 1nto engage ment with the eye at the end of the bow 6, and the parts are adapted to be secured together by bolts or screws that pass through the holes in the bearing coupling 8, and, in the terminal 5, When so secured, the bow 6 extends forward in a horizontal position with the bow or arch 7 lying above it and with. the front end supported by the cover 9. The bow 6 projecting as it does from near the upper end of'the bow 1, may thus be made considerably shorter thanit would otherwise require to be made in order that it might carry the carriage top to as great a distance forward as the short bow shown inthe drawing will carry the top forward and at the same time by unshipping the bow from the couplings 5 and 8, and bringing the terminal 5 into engagement with the eye-bar 4, the carriage top folds into a convenient short space.

In the form shown in Fig. 3, only a single standard 10 is used at the front, and a single standard 21 at the rear. To the standard 10 is engaged a bow 16, similar in all respects to the bow 6, and one with which the coupling between the terminal 15 and the bear'ng 18 may be disconnected, and the termina' 15 brought into engagement with the attachment 14 in the way previously described. At the rear of the carriage a similar bow 26 is connected by a terminal 25 with the bearing 28 on the standard 21, from which it may be unshipped and reshipped to connect it with attachment 24 when it is desired to fold the same. The standard. 10 may be unshipped from the front seat and pivotally connected to one branch of the attachment 24, thus assembling all the bows which support the canopy over the rear seat of a two seated vehicle, leaving the front seat entirely without canopy, but assembling the supports where they are practically out of the way and are still easy to get at if occasion re uires their use.

at I claim is:

1. In a carria e top, in combination with a standard bow-a" apted to be attached to the seat of a carriage, a folding bow provided with a bent cross-bar adapted to engage within the arch oi" the stnmln and sup ort the flap of the cover when the folding ow i and the standard bow are closed together,

' tially as described.

2. In a carriage top, in combination with a pair of standard bows, a horizontally disposed bow pivotally attached to each stand ard bow near the spring of its arch, means for detaching each horizontal bow from its connection with the standard bow and reconnecting each bow with its standard near the bottom, and means for engaging the two standard bows together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I, sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J. HOSKYNS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, WILLIAM M. Swan. 

